You should check that you have the <a "name="#some_id"> PLACE WHERE YOU WANT LINKED</a> in the appropriate place in the same file. You may also want to change the href tag to <a href="file_name.html#some_id"><img src="imgxyz.jpeg"/></a>.

However, when I tap on the image the default action is to zoom-in rather than to following the link.

Anyway to fix this?

What device or program are you using to test this? And yes, you can zoom images (and tables) on some e-Ink Kindles (maybe all, not sure).

I just tried it out on my Kindle Touch (because I've never tried this before and I was curious).

A quick tap on the image that is a link simply flips to the next page, as if it weren't a link at all.

I thought it was a failure, that the link had been removed, but then I tapped and held for a moment (like I wanted to zoom) and there were two little buttons that came up. One a magnifying glass (zoom) and the other a small hand (like what you see when you hover your cursor over a link). Tapping on the link button brought the book to the proper place where I had linked the image to go to.

I'd never seen this before, and found it interest, and I thought other might as well.

But I'd also like to note:
It was very easy to miss the fact that this image was a link. It was underlined, but to be honest, I hadn't noticed that the first time I loaded the book. My point is, if the reader doesn't know that the images are links what are the odds that they will go through the necessary steps to actually get the link to work?
So, I would think about adding in a line that mentions that the images link to somewhere else in the book.

Also, another question:

Setting the image width (effectively size) to e.g. 20% works on Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Fire/iOS. But does not work on Kindle or Kindle DX

Is there a way to apply a width (has to be relative) that works across all devices?

Quick answer: Sadly, no.

Long Answer:
Apparently, older Kindles just don't do percentages. I had some images a while back that I wanted to span a certain percentage of the screen (don't remember the percentage, somewhere in the 25%-33% area I think). I tested it and on the newer devices it worked exactly as I wanted, but on older devices the images still spanned the entire screen, 100%. I tried all the ways I could think of to make the images the size I wanted. Didn't work. Did some research and found out the only way to make images appear how you want on older devices is to use exact pixels.

So, in the end, the best solution I found is to use the @media query and format the image differently for the different devices. Percentages for the newer, and pixels for the older.

Notjohn, this has ever been so; nothing works to proportionately size images on the K7 devices. I've seen Guido's bit on his blog about using ems to size images, and I have yet to see that work. We've used a wide variety of experiments to see if anything else would work, primarily because of the huge issue in addressing the significantly increased pixel density on the HD devices. You have to code % sizes for K8 and fallback pixel sizes for K7, or the K7-devices will all endeavor to enlarge the embedded image as big as possible. And, yes, this behavior is emulated on the KP Desktop, in e-ink mode for Kindle and DX. There's nothing new about this.

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Thanks, Hitch. I checked my publisher's logo in the "Kindle" emulation, and it is indeed a bit oversized (that is, not 12% as instructed), but it's perfectly acceptable, which is why I didn't pick up on it earlier. I won't go to the media calls. -- NJ

I've had both K2 and now 8 Fires, and I LOVE Fire 2. I don't know about "best" as far as authoring is concerned, but I'd be in a pickle without my Fire 2.

Along a similar line to your original question, I make low language, high photography cookbooks, and I'd eventually like to make collections of them. I will need to make a TOC with pictures, probably the book covers I have on the singles. I have Word (grumble grumble), and I could also use Open Office. Is there a way I could do this relatively easily, or will I have to do coding?

Along a similar line to your original question, I make low language, high photography cookbooks, and I'd eventually like to make collections of them. I will need to make a TOC with pictures, probably the book covers I have on the singles. I have Word (grumble grumble), and I could also use Open Office. Is there a way I could do this relatively easily, or will I have to do coding?

Yes, you can do it easily... but the first step is to learn to appreciate the beauty and strength of MS Word.

Here is how I would format an MS Word file to put pictures in the Kindle table of contents.

While it is possible to use full size pictures in the TOC, that would be cumbersome, so I would make smaller copies of the pictures... probably postage stamp size.

I would insert each postage stamp picture "near" each chapter title with no paragraph break between them.

Use "manual line breaks" between lines if you want to place the picture above or below the Chapter Title.

You can't place the picture and the title side-by-side without a good deal of manual formatting.

Before inserting the Heading tag, (in preparation for making the TOC (in MS Word)), make sure to highlight both the postage stamp picture and the chapter title.

With tags created this way, when you create the TOC (in MS Word), the pictures will be included in the TOC.

I have Word (grumble grumble), and I could also use Open Office. Is there a way I could do this relatively easily, or will I have to do coding?

You can get the Writer2epub plug-in for Open Office. You should probably examine it carefully in Sigil (free & excellent) because Word does indeed litter book files with small bombshells. Your only defense against that is to faithfully use Styles, preferably after first taking the online tutorial at Microsoft.

If you use the postage-stamp idea, beware! Older Kindles want to zoom images to fill the page (that's the K1, K2, early models of the K3 Keyboard, and the DX). By stark contrast, the Fire HD and the 8.9 inch tablet follow absolute measurements, so images can look very small on them, especially on the larger tablet.

The main reason for resizing the images was to have them displayed next to each other (in a row). I gave up on trying to do that using HTML and instead I just merged the images into one. That works across all devices (tested using the emulator) and looks fine.

Also when it comes to the TOC made out of image tiles: I figured out I cannot really have images with links so instead I have a hybrid solution where I have: